[X2go-dev] X2Go Client Code Changes

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:32 +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi John, hi Alex, hi list,
> 
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> If I understand it correctly the different setups require two  
> different XServer modes: fullscreen and multi-window mode.
> 
> The multi-window mode can handle many different sessions (desktop  
> type, rootless type), so these won't need separate XServer instances.  
> Thus only fullscreen sessions would need their own XServer instances.  
> How about that? (Or has anyone already provided this suggestion?).
> 
> I am thinking of choosing this approach for some later version of  
> pyhoca-gui. This would also be neat on Unix (have separate ttys for  
> local session and X2go sessions).
> 
> Greets,
> Mike
Hi, Mike.  In discussing this with Phil, we decided on three.  The
explicit rootless gives us <ALT><TAB> capability while we suspect
multi-window does not.  I'm guessing we will move the entire X launch
until later in the process - once we have the session data.  We could
start multi-window early and then only start a new session if it is
rootless or fullscreen but that seems to be a waste. I'd imagine we will
start a new X for each session even if they are all multi-window.  At
least initially.  I'm not sure how complex it would be to check for an
existing multi-window instance before launching a new multi-window
instance.  Thanks - John